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2008

December 12/12/08 Declaration of human rights is the right to religious freedom
12/12/08 Amish gene 'limits heart disease'
12/12/08 Vicar bans 'O Little Town of Bethlehem'
12/8/08 Over 300 sign 'Charter 08', a manifesto for human rights in China, but some are already arrested
12/5/08 Ram Rahim & Sirsa Cultists Swarm into Chandigarh
12/3/08 In grief, Mumbai seeks solace in religion
November 11/26/08 KAZAKHSTAN: Restrictive amendments on religion go to president
11/26/08 Kazakhstan passes restrictive religion measure
11/25/08 Moscow Patriarchate urges Muslims, Jews and Buddhist to form voluntary people’s guards
11/25/08 China sentences Falungong follower to three years in jail: lawyer
11/25/08 Ready for Armageddon, church retails to the masses
11/25/08 India: Thousands March for Religious Freedom
11/25/08 U.S. pediatrician says parents should have to seek medical care for sick children
11/25/08 Charity guilty of funding terror
11/25/08 NPR Sends Wiccan Priestess to Public Prayer Booth
11/25/08 Texas officials seek DNA of polygamist sect baby
11/25/08 Texan polygamy leader charged in child abuse case
11/24/08 Sultan steps into Malaysia yoga row
11/24/08 FLDS teen won't let Texas officials see her baby
11/23/08 Ingushetia in 'state of civil war'
11/21/08 Top Islamic body: Yoga is not for Muslims
11/21/08 Raid on FLDS ranch cost Texas an extra $12.4 million
11/20/08 ACLU sues W.Pa. borough on behalf of church
11/20/08 Verdict for Laurel Church Is Upheld
11/20/08 Government, leader deaths reshape apocalyptic sect in Mexico
11/19/08 First panels of Jonestown memorial unveiled
11/19/08 Religious Freedom Does Not Apply To Muslims Here, Says Retired Judge
11/19/08 Angola cardinal worried by spread of sects
11/19/08 Ark. seizes 20 more children from Alamo group
11/19/08 Book shows Latter-day Saints have an image problem
11/18/08 N.Ireland leaders end 5-month deadlock
11/17/08 French 'virgin' ruling reversed
11/17/08 Survey warns of 'faith bullying'
11/17/08 'Playing Gods' game satirizes religious violence
11/16/08 Uncertain times for US Religious Right
11/14/08 China imprisons Falun Gong follower, lawyer says
11/14/08 Catholic priest in US faces excommunication
11/14/08 Thailand’s three gems losing their gleam?"
11/14/08 Judge cancels hearing on sale of FLDS land"
11/13/08 Religion news in brief
11/13/08 SC priest: No communion for Obama supporters
11/12/08 Time 'wasted' on Holy Cross case
11/12/08 Bishops Call Obama-Supported Abortion Rights Bill a Threat to Catholic Church
11/12/08 Saudi Arabia to Lead U.N. Faith Forum
11/12/08 High court hears dispute over religious monument
11/12/08 Somalis grow fearful of Islamists
11/12/08 Jones plotted cyanide deaths years before Jonestown
11/12/08 Sydney Five had jihad material: court
11/11/08 God, humbug: Humanist holiday ads say just be good
11/10/08 Kenya: Bandits Kidnap Two Italian Catholic Sisters in North-East
11/10/08 Jewish group wants Mormons to stop proxy baptisms
11/09/08 Monks brawl before religious ceremony
11/08/08 Serbian Orthodox Church faces key decision
11/07/08 Son: Billy Graham's work with presidents is ending
11/06/08 Pope seeks Muslim help to defend moral values
11/06/08 Catholics and Muslims to fight terror and defend faith
11/06/08 Krygyzstan passes restrictive religion law
11/06/08 Crosses on Las Cruces, N.M., logo won't be contested
11/06/08 Michigan Legislature getting 1st female Muslim
11/04/08 The Dalai Lama takes a step back
11/03/08 Muslim's suit over scarves in Calif. jail settled
11/01/08 Rabbis' ruling puts thousands of converts in limbo
October 10/31/08 Bush to attend UN dialogue on religions
10/31/08 WorldWide Religious News-Iraqi Christians slowly returning home to Mosul
10/31/08 India: Faithful Mourn Death Of Priest Attacked In Orissa
10/31/08 Number of pagan prisoners has doubled over four years
10/30/08 Christians On the Run in Iraq
10/30/08 Jesuits found dead in Moscow flat
10/29/08 Appeals court upholds prayer at Cobb County commission meetings
10/28/08 KAZAKHSTAN: Community punishment, denial of registration and temple under threat
10/27/08 Dalai Lama 'loses hope' for Tibet
10/27/08 Thailand’s three gems losing their gleam?"
10/27/08 No foreign missionary active in coastal Orissa: report
10/26/08 Pope Decries Christians' Killings in Iraq, India
10/24/08 Nun accusing India mob of rape slams police
10/23/08 UZBEKISTAN: Seven Protestants in self-financed detention, imam sentenced
10/23/08 U.S. condemns beating of sons of Chinese pastor
10/22/08 Phil Woolas contradicts government policy over position of Church of England
10/20/08 Taliban gunmen kill Christian aid worker in Kabul
10/20/08 Cuba opens first Russian church
10/18/08 Mandaeans - a threatened religion
10/17/08 Evangelist Tony Alamo in court on Mann Act charges
10/16/08 Protest mars opening of first mosque in east Germany
10/14/08 Exodus of Christians as killers step up religious cleansing in Iraq
10/14/08 Christians denounce attacks by Hindus in India
10/09/08 Appeals court says Ark. inmate's religious expression violated in '04 at county jail
10/08/08 Attacks on Christians in Iraqi city raise concern
10/07/08 Surviving Waco
10/4/08 Former crusading federal prosecutor seeks Bush pardon over Branch Davidian controversy
10/03/08 Atheists Sue President Over National Prayer Day
September 9/19/08 US group: China releases underground church bishop
9/18/08 Scientology Facing Murky Future in France
9/18/08 European Mormons consolidate headquarters to Frankfurt; hope to raise membership
9/17/08 "Anger over 'Ramadan' trial delay"
9/6/08 Catholics assert themselves in Hanoi land dispute
August 8/27/08 Buddhists protest religious discrimination in South Korea
8/25/08 China arrests bishop of underground church
8/23/08 Divided Chinese Catholic Church Looks for Reconciliation
8/11/08 Jury warned Muslim religion not on trial
8/11/08 Religion Continues to Haunt the Lee Administration
8/08/08 W.Va. offers licenses for those who fear 'beast'
July 7/31/08 NY judge says building codes don't hinder Amish religion, zoning case headed to trial
7/29/08 Church exorcism protected by First Amendment
7/20/08 Cambodian monks debate right to vote in election next week
7/19/08 'Moonies' founder hurt in crash
7/16/08 Senate committee to hold hearing on polygamy
7/11/08 Moroccan woman denied French citizenship because of religion
7/8/08 Killer sects: Eternal life and promised land in return of money and soul
7/4/08 Priests barred from donations to candidates
7/4/08 Maine high court rejects school funding appeal
7/4/08 Judge rejects Va. Christian group's cross request
June 619/08 Group files suit over 'I Believe' plates in SC
6/15/08 Missionaries draw fire in Israel
6/13/08 Ethiopia: Islamists Receive Life Sentences For Church Attacks
6/2/08 Scalia Decries Drift of Court On Religion
May 5/9/08 Uganda: Police Probes Mubende Cult
WorldWide Religious News
5/9/08 Cardinal Murphy-O'Connor: Britain can't become "God-free zone
WorldWide Religious News
5/9/08 Utah, Ariz. Prosecutors Vow Not to Raid Polygamists
WorldWide Religious News
5/9/08 Sex abuse would trump FLDS freedoms, advocacy group says
WorldWide Religious News
5/9/08 Church records offer rare look inside polygamist families
WorldWide Religious News
5/8/08 Islamic court says Muslim convert can return to Buddhism
WorldWide Religious News
5/8/08 Islamic Divorce Ruled Not Valid in Maryland
WorldWide Religious News
5/8/08 State faces new headache over immunizing sect children
WorldWide Religious News
5/6/08 China rebukes U.S.report on religion policy
WorldWide Religious News
5/6/08 Indonesians rally in support of Islamic sect
WorldWide Religious News
5/6/08 German Scientology church drops court challenge; adds human rights declaration to bylaws
WorldWide Religious News
5/6/08 First Israeli - funded non - Orthodox synagogue dedicated
WorldWide Religious News
5/6/08 Crackdown at the Canadian border urged
WorldWide Religious News
5/6/08 Russian court bans Doomsday cult books
WorldWide Religious News
5/6/08 Church leader arrested on sex charges in northeast N.M
WorldWide Religious News
5/6/08 Texas used seized FLDS records against polygamous sect
WorldWide Religious News
5/5/08 Pope discusses Islam relations with Anglican head
WorldWide Religious News
5/5/08 Turkish Alevis fight back against religion lessons
WorldWide Religious News
5/4/08 Russian doomsday sect leader returns to asylum
WorldWide Religious News
5/2/08 U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom
WorldWide Religious News
5/2/08 China accused of religious persecution
WorldWide Religious News
5/2/08 U.S. Commission Split on Iraq Religious Freedom
WorldWide Religious News
5/2/08 Deadly blast strikes Yemen mosque
WorldWide Religious News
5/2/08 Anti-Setu lobby invokes faith
WorldWide Religious News
5/2/08 Once friendly cult becomes reclusive
WorldWide Religious News
5/2/08 Vatican: Pope's exclusion from 'most influential' list, is good
WorldWide Religious News
5/1/08 Federal court hears case of Muslim woman who says veil cost her claim
WorldWide Religious News
5/1/08 Irish prelates barred from Jerusalem's Western Wall
WorldWide Religious News
5/1/08 Fiancée secures royal succession by abandoning her Catholic faith
WorldWide Religious News
April 4/30/08 Activists: China persecuting Buddhist monks in Tibet
WorldWide Religious News
4/30/08 New Mexico police remove 4 children from church compound
WorldWide Religious News
4/30/08 Official: History of injuries found in polygamist sect kids
WorldWide Religious News
4/30/08 Ahmadiyah followers fear more sectarian attacks to follow
WorldWide Religious News
4/30/08 BBC in Christian 'censorship' row
WorldWide Religious News
4/28/08 Critics Cost Muslim Educator Her Dream School
WorldWide Religious News
4/28/08 Uighurs struggle in a world reshaped by Chinese influx
WorldWide Religious News
4/28/08 Protesters burn Indonesian mosque
WorldWide Religious News
4/28/08 Mungiki sect leader is shot dead
WorldWide Religious News
4/28/08 Police act to stop clergy attacks
WorldWide Religious News
4/28/08 Army gives Madhu shrine back to diocese
WorldWide Religious News
4/26/08 Patriarch: Greek Orthodox Church recovering from crisis
WorldWide Religious News
4/25/05 North Korea: Report Details Targeting Of Christians
WorldWide Religious News
4/25/05 Somali children freed from mosque
WorldWide Religious News
4/25/05 Judge: Gideon Bibles don't belong in school
WorldWide Religious News
4/25/05 Church Wins $3.7 Million in Bias Lawsuit
WorldWide Religious News
4/25/05 Jehovah transfusion deemed lawful
WorldWide Religious News
4/25/08 Islam and the West need to engage
WorldWide Religious News
4/25/08 Amish men convicted for having unpermitted outhouses
WorldWide Religious News
4/24/08 At Expense of All Others, Putin Picks a Church
WorldWide Religious News
4/24/08 RUSSIA: Visa changes leave religious communities in limbo
WorldWide Religious News
4/24/08 In Padang, Islamic law is now imposed on all
WorldWide Religious News
4/24/08 Opponents of Ten Commandments monument suing Fargo
WorldWide Religious News
4/24/08 Utah attorney: Polygamous sect parents denied constitutional rights
WorldWide Religious News
4/24/08 Polygamous women separated from kids; Texas appellate court set to hear appeal
WorldWide Religious News
4/23/08 KAZAKHSTAN: "Higher authorities" behind prosecutions of religious communities
WorldWide Religious News
4/23/08 Vatican ponders Paraguay case after bishop elected
WorldWide Religious News
4/23/08 ABKHAZIA: Only Georgian Orthodox priest expelled
WorldWide Religious News
4/23/08 Liberia: Mobs Burned Witch, Wizards' Homes
WorldWide Religious News
4/22/08 Russian Court Jails American Pastor
WorldWide Religious News
4/22/08 Polygamist sect kids leave shelter for foster care, for now
WorldWide Religious News
4/21/08 Afghan lawmakers push cultural bans of Taliban era
WorldWide Religious News
4/21/08 Paris city council names Dalai Lama 'honorary citizen'
WorldWide Religious News
4/20/08 Yu Zhou dies as China launches pre-Olympic purge of Falun Gong
WorldWide Religious News
4/20/08 Indonesians demand ban on sect
WorldWide Religious News
4/20/08 Bomb blast kills Sri Lanka priest
WorldWide Religious News
4/19/08 Dalai Lama speaks at U-M, urges religious tolerance
WorldWide Religious News
4/18/08 TURKMENISTAN: "It is our duty to check up on religious organisations
WorldWide Religious News
4/18/08 Texas polygamist sect is accused of indoctrinating girls
WorldWide Religious News
4/18/08 Muslims, Coptics to sign anti-hate pledge
WorldWide Religious News
4/17/08 Court Rules Against Coach's Right to Bow Head, Bend Knee During Team's Pre-Game Prayer
WorldWide Religious News
4/14/08 Muslims and Christians are not divided like before
WorldWide Religious News
4/14/08 Islamic World Calls for Boycott of Dutch Products to Protest Wilders’ Film
WorldWide Religious News
4/14/08 1,000 Dalit Christians to reconvert to Hinduism in TN
WorldWide Religious News
4/13/08 Nine Killed At Iranian Religious Center
WorldWide Religious News
4/12/08 Masked protesters rally against Scientology
WorldWide Religious News
4/12/08 Jewish remains dug up in Belarus
WorldWide Religious News
4/11/08 Muslims, Mormons build bond
WorldWide Religious News
4/10/08 Monks Disrupt Media Tour in China
WorldWide Religious News
4/10/08 BBC chief Mark Thompson warns of 'over-cautious' Islam coverage
WorldWide Religious News
4/10/08 Suburban Santeria priest appealing animal slaughter ban
WorldWide Religious News
4/10/08 Church of Norway gets more authority to name bishops and priests
WorldWide Religious News
4/9/08 UZBEKISTAN: Eight years' imprisonment for "illegal" religious activity?
WorldWide Religious News
4/9/08 Mgr Saldanha slams murder of Hindu, killed for alleged blasphemy
WorldWide Religious News
4/9/08 Ireland's Sunni-Shi'ite Divide
WorldWide Religious News
4/9/08 B.C. should prosecute polygamists, says former sect member
WorldWide Religious News
4/8/08 KAZAKHSTAN: Heavy sentences on Muslims "to discredit Islam and believers"?
WorldWide Religious News
4/8/08 China faces Muslim resentment in west
WorldWide Religious News
4/8/08 Tamil Tigers appeal over shrine
WorldWide Religious News
4/8/08 Don't charge polygamists until contitutional issue resolved: report
WorldWide Religious News
4/7/08 Two Tibetan monks commit suicide as police invades monasteries
WorldWide Religious News
4/7/08 US Evangelicals March Through Jerusalem
WorldWide Religious News
4/7/08 Turkish court queries acquittal of sect leader
WorldWide Religious News
4/6/08 Muslim Prisoners Win Right to Diet Equality
WorldWide Religious News
4/5/08 Israeli tempers rise over bread
WorldWide Religious News
4/5/08 Jews can't use chalets as synagogue, school
WorldWide Religious News
4/5/08 Church: Ruling violates our rights
WorldWide Religious News
4/5/08 Parents Plead Not Guilty in Death
WorldWide Religious News
4/4/08 Falun Gong Deaths Escalate as Olympics Approach
WorldWide Religious News
4/4/08 Revered Sri Lankan statue removed
WorldWide Religious News
4/4/08 Religious scholar dismisses Sharia proposal for non-Muslims
WorldWide Religious News
4/4/08 Fairfax judge rules in favor of breakaway congregations
WorldWide Religious News
4/4/08 New head of voodoo brings on the charm
WorldWide Religious News
4/2/08 Saudi Mufti denies inviting Israeli rabbis to religious dialogue
WorldWide Religious News
4/2/08 Protest in Muslim Province in China
WorldWide Religious News
4/2/08 U.S., Europeans: Islamic countries want to limit free speech at UN
WorldWide Religious News
4/2/08 BELARUS: Religious freedom petition rejected as pressure on Protestants continues
WorldWide Religious News
4/2/08 Muslim Official Visits Church, Temples
WorldWide Religious News
4/2/08 4,000 against war manoeuvres at the Shrine of our Lady of Madhu
WorldWide Religious News

4/1/08

India sends warning to Dalai Lama
WorldWide Religious News

4/1/08

U.S. Supreme Court takes a new 10 Commandments case
WorldWide Religious News

4/1/08

Student Sues Wisconsin School After Getting a Zero for Religious Drawing
WorldWide Religious News

4/1/08

'No more mosques' says Synod member
WorldWide Religious News

 

2007

April 4/3/07 "KAZAKHSTAN: Officially-inspired intolerance of religious freedom steps up"
WorldWide Religious News
4/3/07 "Tories drafted law on religious rights"
WorldWide Religious News
4/3/07 "Trouble brewing as radicals rise up in Serbia's Muslim-populated south"
WorldWide Religious News
4/2/07

Loss of New Freedoms in Vietnam
Freedom House

4/2/07 China House Church Leader Gets One Year "Harsh Labor" For Preaching To Communist Official
Worthy Ministries News
4/2/07 Pakistan: Christian Prisoners Win Back Jail 'Church'
Worthy Ministries News
March 3/30/07 "A Fundamental Element of the Common Good"
Zenit News Agency
3/29/07 TURKMENISTAN: Deportee faces criminal trial for "illegal" return
Forum 18 News Service
3/29/07 RUSSIA: Will Moscow Salvation Army's rights be restored?
Forum 18 News Service
3/29/07 DOJ's religious freedom seminars kick off in KC
One New Now
3/27/07 UZBEKISTAN: Pastor's verdict documents extensive state controls
Forum 18 News Service
3/26/07 'Super Agency' Threatens Russian Freedom
Freedom House
3/26/07 China's Lesson on Freedom of Religion
University of Chicago Law School - News
3/23/07 UZBEKISTAN: Pastor's re-education "impossible without isolation from society"
Forum 18 News Service
3/23/07 Protester Calling for Religious Freedom in Burma Released
Voice of America News
3/22/07 Religious freedom law on trial in Texas
One News Now
3/20/07 KAZAKHSTAN: Stalled Hare Krishna demolitions to take place "in five days"
Forum 18 News Service
3/20/07 KAZAKHSTAN: Hare Krishna demolition re-started – then halted by "person in a black Mercedes"
Forum 18 News Service
3/15/07 RUSSIA: "Absurd" property regulations extend to Catholics and Orthodox
Forum 18 News Service
3/3/07 No burqa ban in the Netherlands
Dutch News NL
3/2/07 "Federal Panels Order NIH to Reinstate Priest" WorldWide Religious News

3/2/07

"U.S. Falun Gong Case Against China To Proceed"                                          WorldWide Religious News

February 2/28/07  "Supreme Court takes up church-state case" WorldWide Religious News
2/28/07 "KAZAKHSTAN: The fight against terrorism and religious groups without registration" WorldWide Religious News
2/28/07 Iranian Baha'is face continuing discrimination in higher education
Baha'i World News Service

2/15/07

Russia & the CIS - Central Asia - Church/State WorldWide Religious News

2/14/07

"Parade Ban on Falun Gong OK, Judge Says"
WorldWide Religious News

2/8/07

Uzbekistan "Harshening Crackdown" On Religious Freedom And Media, groups say
Worthy Ministries News

2/1/07 "MACEDONIA: Will draft new religion law end discrimination?"                                 WorldWide Religious News
January 1/30/07

"Opt-out refusal 'bans church from public life'" WorldWide Religious News

1/26/07 "German Sunday Closing Law Applies to New Scientology Center"
WorldWide Religious News
1/26/07 "Religion today"                                WorldWide Religious News

1/22/07

"European churches revive drive for EU 'God clause'"                                             WorldWide Religious News

1/19/07 "Chinese officials denounce Falun Gong-backed Lunar New Year show"                    WorldWide Religious News
1/10/07 "Controversy in Macedonia over law on religious groups"
WorldWide Religious News
1/16/07 Religious Freedom Day, 2007
White House News
1/3/07

"ROMANIA: Controversial Law promulgated; legal challenges planned"
WorldWide Religious News

December 12/20/06 "UZBEKISTAN: Government attacks on Protestants, Jehovah's Witnesses and Muslims continue"                                          WorldWide Religious News
12/19/06 "UZBEKISTAN: Prime-time state TV incites intolerance of religious minorities and religious freedom"                                          WorldWide Religious News
12/16/06

Russia & the CIS - Central Asia - Church/State   WorldWide Religious News

12/15/06

"ROMANIA: Controversial Religion Law's passing violated parliamentary processes" WorldWide Religious News

12/12/06 "Romania eyes ridding schools of religious symbols"                                           WorldWide Religious News

12/10/06 Excommunicated cleric installs married men as Catholic priests in US ceremony"       WorldWide Religious News
November 11/30/06 "Muslim women protest outside Dutch parliament against burqa ban"            WorldWide Religious News
11/29/06

"SERBIA: Legal status to be denied to religious-based associations?"                         WorldWide Religious News

11/29/06 "Turkish president vetoes EU-sought religion law"                                                  WorldWide Religious News
11/28/06 "UZBEKISTAN: Despite official denials, religious freedom violations continue"
WorldWide Religious News
11/15/06 Death sentence for three Protestant leaders upheld
WorldWide Religious News

11/15/06

RUSSIA: How likely are missionary restrictions?
WorldWide Religious News

11/15/06

Abdullah warns against religious intolerance
WorldWide Religious News

11/9/06

Germany's high court orders reconsideration of ban on church leader Moon
WorldWide Religious News